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Canadian News. Victory in Europe Celebrated by Joyful Nation

Item number (ISN):

23079

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1945

Item number (ISN):

23079

Type of material:

Moving images

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Fonds/collection:

TWENTIETH CENTURY-FOX FILM CORPORATION

Accession:

1980-0197

Media:

Film

Part:

1 of 1

Production date:

1945

Production company:

Fox Movietone News

Description:

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Cemermony on Parliament Hill. Soldiers and civilians look on. Sailors stand at attention. Canadian Women's Army Corps members. Soldiers (vetrans?) march with large Union Jacks. Little child in sailor suit waves flag. Pan across crowd on Parliament Hill, with Langevin Block and other Wellington Street buildings shown in background and backs of heads of several men on podium in foreground (one possibly William Lyon Mackenzie King). Cut to excited crowds on street, in unidentified city, presumably Montreal, waving Union Jacks and Stars and Stripes. Streetcar in background.~Close-up of two women holding front pages of newspaper, [Montreal] Herald with large headlines Official Surrender and Huns Quit. More close-ups of smiling women. Soldiers stand on running boards of a car. Then a group of smiling women in a convertible. Wide shot of crowd on street, with streetcars and cars in background and Canadian Pacific sign on street. Cluster of small bits of paper fly through the air. Crowd of children smiling as they come down steps of a school. Building from which rows of American flags and Union Jacks fly. Crowds waving flags and tickertape, with Victory Bond sign behind them. Other crowd scenes, with people waving British and American flags. Groups of people crowded onto trucks and cars, waving their hands and handerchiefs. Two women kiss a sailor as another man looks at camera and smiles. Soldiers with flags march by a memorial. Crowd looks on. <1mn 21s>

Language:

Silent with English intertitles

Original number:

54-871

Notes:

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1. Title on slate is Montreal VE Day celebrations.~2. Sequences with Canadian Pacific sign and school children identified in Gems from a stockshot library footage, reference tape 13-0228-2, as being shot in Winnipeg.~3. Actuality footage over 50 years - copyright expired.

Detailed holdings information:

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Vault ISN:

30647

Format:

FILM

Location number:

N-3984

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

NITRATE

Technical description:

POS

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

34427

Format:

FILM

Location number:

8104-0548

Vault code:

GAT

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

DUPE

Technical description:

NEG

Made from:

N-3984

Status:

PRT.ELEM

Vault ISN:

34428

Format:

FILM

Location number:

8104-0549

Vault code:

GAT

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

ANS PRT

Made from:

8104-0548

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

34430

Format:

FILM

Location number:

8104-0550

Vault code:

GAT

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

DUPE

Technical description:

POS

Made from:

8104-0548

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

200723

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V1 9209-0038

Number of items:

1

Status:

REF
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Conditions of access:

Open

Consultation copy number:

V1 9209-0038

Restrictions on consultation:

~No Restrictions / Pas de restrictions

Copyright status:

Copyright expired.

Reproduction access:

With written permissions / Avec les permissions écrites

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